Pumpkin Run Pulse

Our copy hasn't arrived yet. Regardless, I feel pressed to present some highlights of the information we've (my sister, Alicia, and I) gathered in the meantime. It's our desire to encourage you to get your own copy, or borrow one from the library as fast as you can. I'm referring to the book series related to the CanAm Missing Project headed by David Paulides.

Hundreds upon hundreds of people have gone missing. In some cases their bodies have been recovered. In fewer cases, they've been found alive but unable to relate what happened to them. All of them have striking similarities in the events occurring up to, during and after they disappeared.

David Paulides and his research team have gone to painstaking lengths to investigate and compile these cases into books to bring them to light in the entire public eye. Their aim is to gain further clues and knowledge from readers, as well as to educate readers on the things to be cautious of if they find themselves engaging in similar situations and environments.

The team has produced several books in a series outlining the known details of these cases. The first is titled Missing 411, which covers the common-thread disappearances with bizarre circumstances happening inside or on the edges of the U.S. National Parks system.

Their investigations have come up against walls of secrecy and an overall refusal to cooperate on a variety of levels by U.S. governing agencies from the national parks system to the federal level. You know--those employees riding on your tax dollars to serve and assist you?

Thankfully, Paulides is a well-versed professional of crime investigation in both a public detective and private detective capacity. His team has found their way through or around the public employee roadblocks and succeeded in gathering crucial data associated with these cases which may help others stay safe, and eventually, hopefully, help solve the mysteries of those who are lost and not yet found, or found lifeless.

A few commonalities

This is by no means a complete list of common threads within the cases, but it's enough give you an idea of at least some of the related factors in these disappearances.

The young adult-to-middle-aged victims are usually in excellent physical condition and have exceptionally high IQs.

If their bodies are recovered, they're often found in places that have been searched multiple times previously by many people.

Frequently, their shoes/boots are missing.

Clothing is often missing, or the victim is wearing it wrong-side out or backwards, or the clothing doesn't belong to them.

Often the victim is found many miles from the site of their disappearance and in area they'd have had difficulty getting to on foot.

Victims whose bodies have been recovered in cold weather areas have often had insulated clothing nearby as well as cell phones with them, that had good signal access yet they made no call for help and weren't wearing the insulated clothing.

Bodies are sometimes found in places they couldn't have gotten into alone, or shouldn't have been able to get into at all.

There are often people nearby and within sight or even reach, when the victim vanishes, but no one sees them vanish. The people with them report that one moment they were there, and the next moment gone, sometimes within seconds of last being seen.

Some victims disappear while with a group, but have stepped away from the group or are the last in line of a group making their way along a trail.

The children in these cases are usually very young, and are not old enough to be adept at communicating verbally.

Many of the cases are of those who have mental health issues such as various degrees of Alzheimer's, dementia or acute to moderate retardation.

Of the missing children's bodies that are recovered, their clothes are often wrong side out, backwards, or they're wearing clothing that doesn't belong to them. This is common in the related adult disappearances as well, but in the children's cases, their families insist the child was too young to remove their clothing on their own, or dress themselves and were still requiring assistance from elders with such tasks.

The disappearances usually occur near water, from small creek beds to large lakes and rivers.

The decomposition state of the bodies is not line with the amount of time the decedents have been missing. Rather, the bodies condition is indicative of the decedents being alive and detained or stored elsewhere, and later dumped in other areas.

Bodies are often recovered in areas they could not have gotten to without assistance, like air lift.

After the alert is reported and wide-spread searching begins, nearly always, a short time later a terrific storm sets in halting search procedures.

In many cases the bodies are found to be nearly bloodless.

In many cases alcohol or other drugs are found in the system although the victim was known to have been sober and not using drugs at the time of their disappearance or were never known to have used them.

In urban disappearances of children, the child's father is often away from the setting when the child disappears, yet elder females are on site.

Again, this isn't a complete list but it's sizable enough to share some of the odd similarities these cases exhibit.

Another thing worth noting, of the young-adult to middle-aged victims, most were not only possessing a high-IQ and elite physical abilities, but they were also vastly experienced with wilderness environments and survival.

Related urban cases

Elisa Lam went missing in 2013 from the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Elisa was a Canadian tourist. She was smart, in great shape and conscientiously reporting to her parents frequently during her stay in L.A.

The last images of Elisa were captured by an elevator video camera, which recorded her behaving in strange fashion. See video of news clip below which includes the video of her last known alive appearance in the hotel elevator.

Subsequent information regarding Elisa's case is listed below.

Her body was found in one of the hotel's four water towers. The towers are positioned on a platform on top of the hotel and require a ladder to access.

The port of entry on the water tower was not large enough for Elisa's body to fit through, yet the tank had not been altered or manipulated in any fashion to allow room for her to enter. The water tower was part of the water supply to hotel residents for use in showers, laundry, food prep, etcetera.

She was found nude. Her clothing was found in the tank, below her body.

She was bloodless.

Within a few days of Elisa's body being found, L.A. news services began reporting a warning to L.A. residents about a fast-spreading and drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. It spread rapidly in the area and surrounding areas of the Cecil hotel.

The Tuberculin strain was said to be easily contracted by ingestion as well as contact with infected bodies of deceased people. The test administered to detect that particular strain of tuberculosis is called the Lam-Elisa test.

This is a highlight of only one of many, MANY cases linked to the CanAm Missing project.

Why the rush?

When I began this post, I wrote that I was going ahead with what data I have available to share, even though I didn't yet have a copy of any of the books in the series.

Just as I was finishing up the last section above, Alicia (my sister) walked in with a package ...

The book arrived while I was writing.

CLICK HERE to visit the CanAm Missing Project website.

The sales of these books (there are several in the continually developing series) are available for purchase via the CanAm Missing Project website. You can also purchase them via amazon, however I'll warn you that they're only sold there by people who purchased them through the project and are reselling them at outrageous prices, sometimes for hundreds of dollars. I've personally seem them on Amazon priced in excess of $260 USD.

If you're determined to spend that much money on these books, I'll not deter you, but I hope you'll have the good sense to spend that much through the projects website, rather than spend it on a book scalper.

Instead, I implore you to make a donation to the CanAm Missing Project which is way more than what the book will cost you when buying it from the source. They run for $20-something each, plus shipping and handling.

The monies raised from the book sales are a large source of the funding for a movie the CanAm Missing Project is working to produce. It will encapsulate a good many of these cases and help spread the news to larger audiences in an effort to help both the families of the victims and to aid in preventing future cases from occurring, if possible.

Please consider not only buying one or more of these books yourself, but to also share information on them with your kith, kin, colleagues, local law enforcement and emergency rescue crews and your local libraries.

Nope--I'm not joking even a tiny bit about that last graph. It's seriously that important. In doing so, you may save a life, or lives, or help bring more light to the cases that already exist.

Another way of getting better acquainted with the cases and the CanAm Missing Project is via Coast to Coast A.M. radio broadcasts featuring interviews with Paulides. They usually air late on the weekends central time, but you can easily listen to them a day or two later via YouTube productions when it's more convenient for you.

Below is the most recent YouTube addition, as of this posting.

Finish Line

That's it for this one.

I hope I've spooked you. It was my intent, but with an honorable motive in hopes that good will come from it.

Here are a few more links to videos featuring David Paulides with a variety of information about the Missing 411 cases:

femme - this is very interesting, spooky as you promised and it really makes you think. I remember the case of Elisa Lam very well. It was most disturbing, but I had not heard the details of how impossible that whole thing seemed, and that is really scary.
You captured the disturbing nature of these commonalities so well. I did not listen to more than 11 minutes of the last video. It's well over 2 hours long! An audio book in itself, and I'll try to get back to it.
It does sound interesting, and your review really laid the groundwork for it.
Really good review. Apart that is, from installing fear whenever I have to go out by myself!

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femmeflashpoint

9/9/2015 11:40:23 am

Vicki,

Alicia passed along the first bit of info about Missing 411 (the first book) before it was published. I've since followed along, learning as much as possible when the Paulides team made the data available.

More and more people continue to get involved, offering questions and related information. Word is continuing to spread globally, which means their outreach with the books, radio broadcasts and videos is working, and of course, people like us who are committed to spreading the word.

It could be any family, anywhere this sort of thing can happen to. The more we know, the safer we and our communities are.

The vids--I suggest saving the links and having a go at them when there's time to listen, even if it's only in half-hour chunks. :)

Thanks for the visit and the comment!

femme

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Angie

9/9/2015 11:00:24 am

Well, this certainly falls under the bizarre! I wonder what percentage of the victims are found bloodless, and why? Are they injured? This article was so interesting, Femme, that even if it were book length, I would have finished it.

Thanks for passing the word around - your intent to help people to be safe is so honorable and sweet.

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femmeflashpoint

9/9/2015 11:50:00 am

Hi Angie,

Thanks so much for the visit and the read. These cases are frustrating and heart-breaking.

As to your questions, I don't have the figures for how many are found in what condition, but I may know more after I finish one of the books, which I plan to do over the weekend, if possible.

The map on the CanAm Missing website is equally as fascinating. It has a pin-point of all the cases that fit the profile, and most of them are clustered into specific areas. There's also a "band" area that has nothing ... not a single case within that whole region, that stretches from near a northern US border to the southern border, directly below and spanning our country.

Our area, meaning your area and mine, and Appalachia in general, is a large hot spot for these incidents, as well as Michigan and Northern Indiana. They're big-water areas ...

There are recent cases that fit the profiles and in listening to some of the families express their anguish and frustration over the lack of public services help in continuing the efforts to locate their loved ones, and the apathetic approach is as bizarre as the cases themselves.

Thanks for your interest and support. The more we know and share the more likely we are to find answers and prevent further incidents.

Wow that is super creepy, I never heard of this. I mean it sounds like alien abduction or something. The bloodless part makes me really think maybe that is why they are being harvested. So strange.

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femmeflashpoint

9/14/2015 12:47:02 pm

Tarrin,

I'm 2/3rds through the first I've read in the Missing 411 series. To say it's mind-blowing is an understatement. So is creepy, but it's still effective. I'm amazed and ... well, I hope the word spreads. Perhaps things can be done to prevent further disasters if folks are aware of things to be watchful of.

I'm so glad Paulides' has written these books, and at the same time, I'm grieved for him to be undergoing such a necessary yet grim collection.

Dear femme,
This reads like science fiction yet the thought of this reality is horrifying.
Thanks for raising awareness and introducing us to these books~ I'm intending to check them out as well.
Love, mar

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femmeflashpoint

9/16/2015 09:39:18 am

Prof. Mahreer,

Your description of these cases is spot on. Thankfully Paulides has been genuinely sensitive to the loved ones of these victims, and represented each case with consideration of the victims' loved ones, communities and beyond, outlining facts and details without sensationalizing or adding to the macabre tone.

I'd not recommend these books for younger readers, but teens up and I definitely not only recommend but encourage them to read the series in hopes they'll spread the word to their friends, stay in groups whenever possible, avoid wearing clothing that might have the potential to attract the unwanted and to keep an eye out for one another.

If one life is saved, it's worth it. On the side of good, perhaps there have been many more than one life saved already, since Paulides, his team and many others have begun to sound the alert and working hard to raise awareness.

Knowledge is power. I hope the knowledge of this spreads like dust in the wind and finds its way everywhere.

Kelly Nash /disappearance, January, 2015. Mysteriouscircumstances. Found with no shoes. Gunshot wound to the head, but drowned.

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Craig

3/21/2016 10:13:54 am

many of David Paulides cases are in this book - She wrote about the "drownings " and Elisa Lam before David Paulides - this needs Cops to look into it! http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-WATER-FOREVER-AWAKE-Unexplained-ebook/dp/B01CPQZHKE/ref=sr_1_1?ie

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